Setting up Python Environment-PyCharm

Python can be installed on Windows, Mac as well as Linux. Since I plan to learn programming on Linux, I was searching for IDE for Python on Linux.

For beginners, IPython, IDLE and pyCharm are good to get started.

IPython can be accessed from Linux terminal. Here, I printed Hello word! (Word as in WordPress 🙂

IDLE is Python’s Integrated Development and Learning Environment. It is coded in Python using tkinter GUI toolkit. It is simple but has quite a number of useful features. Please refer to https://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html for more documentation.

PyCharm is an IDE from Jetbrains (https://www.jetbrains.com). It is easy to install on Linux Mint. There are 2 versions of the Pycharm IDE – Professional which is a licensed edition. There is also a free Community Edition which can be downloaded. I downloaded Community Edition.

It’s a matter of opinion, but I think you will have the best experience with PyCharm. I tutor in Python and am in the process of putting up Python tutorials. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions!